Maritime History of the Great LakesA Great Lakes digital collection containing text and images featuring shipbuilding, shipwrecks and the working lives of steamboats, schooners and the people who sailed them.http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/atomMaritime History of the Great Lakeshttp://images.ourontario.ca/portlets/gli/atomtile_50x50.gif2019-02-06T13:50:59.002Z490220
In the Offing at Oswego harbor
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In the Offing at Oswego harbor
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Photograph of a tugboat towing a schooner between the piers and into Oswego harbor
Photograph of a tugboat towing a schooner between the piers and into Oswego harbor
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2012-09-15T21:26:29Z
Telescope, v. 14, n. 4 (April 1965)
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Telescope, v. 14, n. 4 (April 1965)
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Bugbee, Gordon P.
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
Great Lakes Maritime Institute
2019-01-21T14:20:03.176Z
Ship Canal, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior
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Ship Canal, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior
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Stereoview of a propeller in the locks at Sault Ste. Marie.
Stereoview of a propeller in the locks at Sault Ste. Marie.
946. Ship Canal, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior.
Occidental View Company
Popular Series
Stoughton Wis., U.S.A.
Agents Wanted.
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-20T20:59:30.932Z
Saugatuck from Bald Head
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Saugatuck from Bald Head
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Stereoview of Saugatuck, Michigan. There is a lumber yard in the centre of the photograph, with a steam barge to the extreme right and two masts of a schooner visible at the lumber yard around the curve of the river. The bridge across the Kalamazoo River is visible in the background as is...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/122280/data
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-20T09:44:53.010Z
Petoskey, Michigan
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Petoskey, Michigan
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Stereoview of the Petoskey pier from the beach. Some smaller boats are in the foreground with a steamboat at the pier.
Stereoview of the Petoskey pier from the beach. Some smaller boats are in the foreground with a steamboat at the pier.
[handwritten: Petoskey, Michigan]
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T20:30:24.833Z
Petoskey
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Petoskey
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Stereoview of the wharf at Petoskey with two steamers at the end. Some wooden cribs appear to have washed ashore.
Stereoview of the wharf at Petoskey with two steamers at the end. Some wooden cribs appear to have washed ashore.
Series "C"
Petoskey and Vicinity
Photographed...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/122273/data
McBride, A. B.
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T20:17:28Z
Grand Trunk Crossing
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Grand Trunk Crossing
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Grand Trunk Crossing
St. Clair River
J. A. Jenney Publisher, Detroit...
Grand Trunk Crossing
St. Clair River
J. A. Jenney Publisher, Detroit
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T19:55:41Z
City of Mackinac and Boat Landing
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City of Mackinac and Boat Landing
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Photographed & Published by
W. S. White, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Photographed & Published by
W. S. White, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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White, W. S.
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T15:49:37Z
Mackinaw
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Mackinaw
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Stereoview from the front of Fort Mackinac of piers in Mackinac harbor, including several steamboats
Stereoview from the front of Fort Mackinac of piers in Mackinac harbor, including several steamboats
42 Mackinaw
J. A. Jenney, Publisher, Detroit
National Park, Mackinac
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T13:56:05.390Z
Marquette Waterfront
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Marquette Waterfront
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IRON AGE was launched in 1880 with 3 masts, and rebuilt in 1887 with 4 masts
Stereoview of ice covered propeller IRON AGE at the wharf in Marquette
Stereoview of ice covered propeller IRON AGE at the wharf in Marquette
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2019-01-19T13:10:06.159Z
A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
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A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
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Cumberland, Barlow
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2009-11-26T19:43:16Z
Shooting Long Sault Rapids
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Shooting Long Sault Rapids
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A short film of an unknown steamboat in the Long Sault Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River in 1903.
A short film of an unknown steamboat in the Long Sault Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River in 1903.
"Photographed from the
Library of Congress
Paper Film Collection
by Renovare...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/1568/data
American Mutoscope & Biograph
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2008-07-03T22:42:06Z
Buffalo on Lake Erie
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Buffalo on Lake Erie
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A remarkable coloured etching made from a camera lucida drawing by half-pay officer, Captain Basil Hall, RN of the harbour at Buffalo at the junction of Buffalo Creek and the Erie Canal. Several schooners are in port along with one steamboat, probably the SUPERIOR.
A remarkable...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/116299/data
Hall, Basil
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2018-01-10T11:21:31.568Z
“A Revolution in Travelling”: The Steamboat Letters of the Torrance family, 1831-1848
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“A Revolution in Travelling”: The Steamboat Letters of the Torrance family, 1831-1848
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The Torrance family's correspondence in the collection of papers by Robert M. Powell and his family at Library and Archives Canada must be recognized for his discussion of the steamboats of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in the 1830s and 1840s. This recently discovered cache of...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/cnrs/114739/data
Fisher, Rob
Canadian Nautical Research Society
2017-08-02T11:25:17Z
New Steam-Boats
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New Steam-Boats
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The American steamboat in question would become the PIONEER, which was enlarged and run on Lake Erie rather than the Niagara River
The American steamboat in question would become the PIONEER, which was enlarged and run on Lake Erie rather than the Niagara River...
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-03-02T12:48:21Z
Wealth and power westward
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Wealth and power westward
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<p>WEALTH AND POWER WESTWARD. We meet with the following in the papers without knowing whence it was derived, but presume the information which it gives is nearly correct. </p>
<p><emph>Commerce of Lake Erie</emph>-- American side. Steam brig Superior built at Buffalo 346 tons; steam boat...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/113358/data
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-02-16T08:18:39Z
Steam Boat Navigation
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Steam Boat Navigation
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Section from Franklin B. Hough, A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Albany: Little & Co., 1853)
Section from Franklin B. Hough, A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/113355/data
Hough, Franklin B.
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-02-14T20:27:04Z
Grain Elevator, Odensburgh R. R.
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Grain Elevator, Odensburgh R. R.
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From Franklin B. Hough, A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Albany: Little & Co., 1853) after page 560.
From Franklin B. Hough, A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/113354/data
Woolworth, L. J.
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-02-14T19:56:48Z
Shipping on Lake Erie
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Shipping on Lake Erie
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<head>SHIPPING ON LAKE ERIE </head>
<p>The following list of vessels on Lake Erie furnished us by a friend who has taken great pains to ascertain their number and the exact tonnage of each will be read with satisfaction by all who feel an interest in the prosperity of the west It exhibits...http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/113345/data
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-02-13T21:39:55Z
Superior (Steamboat), aground, 7 Jun 1827
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Superior (Steamboat), aground, 7 Jun 1827
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Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Remarks: Got off
Reason: aground<br/>
Lives: nil<br/>
Remarks: Got off<br/>
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2017-02-13T09:00:36Z